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Chapter 371 Xia Pingzhou's Third Contract Demon (Two Chapters Combined, Seeking Monthly Tickets)

In the stillness of the night, the pitch-black night quietly enveloped the sea and Haifan City, but the forest on Haifan Mountain was brightly lit.

Lanterns hung from the trees, casting a warm glow, like thousands of giant fireflies hovering in the night.

Wrath and sloth, two of the Seven Deadly Sins, have quietly left the forest.

Before long, the two arrived in front of Lingxin Lake.

The silver cross representing rage rose into the air, while sloth rode a flying broom.

After a while, they crossed the vast Spirit Heart Lake and passed through the long tunnel made of thorns and flowers. After leaving the territory of the Great Lord Nian Beast, they arrived at the maple forest on the mountainside.

With no one around, we finally found a safe place to talk.

“The son of the Nian beast… something seems off.” The skeletal humanoid figure on the silver cross raised its head and said.

"Something's not right. What do you mean?" asked the girl next to him, dressed in a shrine maiden's outfit and wearing a pointed shrine maiden's hat.

She rubbed her dark circles, looked up, and let the clear moonlight fall on her face, stretching lazily with obvious enjoyment. The sea breeze rustled through the maple forest, enveloping the entire forest in a vast, resounding sound.

“At least I can be sure that it is not friendly to us…” the enraged demon said thoughtfully. “If it were just an ordinary demon, it would be fine, but it is the offspring of the Nian Beast Lord.”

"So, tell me, what are you going to do?" Sloth yawned and asked lazily.

"Perhaps...we need to leave?"

"Aren't you overthinking things?" Sloth asked. "The son of the Nian beast has been away from this mountain for ten years. What could it possibly say..."

At this moment, her words came to an abrupt halt, and then the expressions of the two demons changed drastically.

They looked up almost simultaneously, only to see a faint green dot flash by in the distance. Immediately afterward, from the depths of the maple forest, a diamond-like trajectory appeared, hurtling towards them close to the ground.

In an instant, the Queen's colossus swirled its twin swords, the blades almost converging into a storm. Wherever this eerie green gale swept by, maple trees along the way were all cleaved in two, and fallen leaves on the ground surged up, rustling loudly.

“So fast…” The enraged demon narrowed his eyes and spoke almost hoarsely.

"Soul Devourer" is a seemingly unremarkable passive skill on the "Soul" branch of Unit 2. Its effect is: "After a piece kills a demon, it has a certain chance to gain a small attribute boost."

As a chess player, Xia Pingzhou's "spirit" and "speed" attributes correspond to the "strength" and "speed" of the chess type, respectively, but the attributes of the chess type are naturally lower than those of the chess player.

If the attributes of a chess piece should be a "weakened version" of the attributes of a chess player, then the Queen Statue has already surpassed this rule.

In the Tokyo area, after exorcising countless demons, the Queen Colossus naturally accumulated a large amount of growth attributes through the passive skill "Soul Devour".

Little by little, it adds up; like water dripping on a stone, it wears away the stone; and it has even subtly surpassed the attributes of the chess player himself.

In addition, Xia Pingzhou's "spirit" and "speed" attributes have already reached the minimum standard for the natural disaster level.

It can be said that the current Queen Colossus is physically comparable to a superhuman being who excels in physical prowess.

Xia Pingzhou even wondered if there was no upper limit to the attributes that the Queen's statue could acquire through "Soul Devouring".

If there truly is no upper limit, then after slaying millions of demons, he wouldn't be surprised if the Queen Statue's attributes reached mythical levels.

However, Xia Pingzhou's other chess attributes are far inferior, since he has focused all his resources on the Queen.

The other pieces have now become somewhat of the king's appendages, essential sacrifices for the king to activate his powers.

So at this moment, the enraged demon would naturally be amazed by the speed and power of the Queen Colossus, and even find it difficult to catch its trajectory with the naked eye.

The colossal statue of the Queen swept towards us like a whirlwind, its two diamond-encrusted daggers spinning almost like tops. It swept up fallen leaves, felled trees, and hurtled towards us with unstoppable force.

By the time the rage subsided, the queen had already closed in and stood right between it and Sloth.

Meanwhile, in the distance of the maple forest, Xia Pingzhou stood under a tree, his dark eyes silently watching this scene.

If the raging demon was truly killed by a single strike from such a distance, then he figured he might as well get rid of this contracted demon.

The enraged demon reacted in the next instant. The skeletal body suddenly melted, turning into a murky white liquid, which then poured into the interior of the silver-white cross.

It's like water dissolving into water.

Immediately afterwards, the silver-white cross suddenly transformed into a gigantic shield. Pristine white bones and scarlet eyes were etched at its center, while the cross pattern ran vertically across the entire shield.

The whole thing exudes a sense of sanctity mixed with eeriness.

The shield formed from rage blocked the oncoming storm of blades. This moment seemed fleeting, but the queen's twin blades had already struck the shield more than a hundred times.

The Sloth Demon, however, was quick-witted and nimble, mounting a flying broom and retreating more than a hundred meters.

She suddenly turned her head and found a figure wearing a black and white Japanese school uniform behind her.

The schoolgirl loosened her tie, drew the sword from its sheath at her waist, and then opened her eyes, as dark as the polar night. She brandished the sword in mid-air, her black hair flying in the wind.

"I haven't cut down many demons that are originally humanoid, so it's quite novel," said Enma Rin.

The Sloth Demon asked softly, "You don't seem to be from the Lake Hunters. Why are you doing this? Could it be... that you're exorcists hired by the Lake Hunters? If so, you've really caught us off guard." As she spoke, she glanced at the Wrath Demon out of the corner of her eye.

At this very moment, the shield formed by the enraged demon is continuously blocking the Queen Colossus's hundreds of attacks.

The Demon of Sloth quickly noticed a young man in a black hoodie standing beneath a maple tree further away. A black and white aura emanated from him, forming a circular orbit.

The track is filled with countless chess pieces, shining like a constellation of stars.

At that moment, Xia Pingzhou had already reached out and picked up one of the chess pieces, summoning the King's Colossus. He ordered the King to keep it behind him, using the power of the scepter to protect his safety in case of emergency.

“How foolish,” said the Sloth Demon. “There are only two of you? Even an entire army wouldn’t be enough to defeat us.” With that, the girl in the wizard’s hat rode her broomstick and rose straight into the sky.

Then, a sudden burst of singing filled almost the entire maple forest, disrupting the tranquility of the night.

Xia Pingzhou raised his head.

The Demon of Sloth opened its throat and sang loudly, while looking down at the entire maple forest.

Her singing could put any creature that heard it to sleep instantly; only those with exceptionally strong mental power could escape it.

However, at this moment, a black and white halo spread from the king's scepter, protecting Xia Pingzhou from the disturbance of the singing.

Enma Rin was not unmoved either.

A blood-moon-like, eerie light flashed by, and suddenly a swastika-shaped opening appeared on the hilt of her katana. Then, like a monster with its pores opened, countless twisted, malevolent spirits roared and crawled out of the blade.

In the blink of an eye, the evil spirits bound her entire body.

"Ju-on" is a unique ability that Enma Rin's "Demon Blade" form awakened after her Sky Drive was upgraded to the third tier—it strengthens her own power by using the spirits residing in the Demon Blade.

The power of this move depends on the number of souls she kills. The more souls, the stronger the curse. But the cost is that each use of this ability depletes her lifespan.

Most importantly, in her Ju-on form, Enma Rin is immune to the vast majority of mental abilities.

Because the wails and screams of the dead in my mind were far louder and more piercing than the song of the demon of sloth.

Seeing this, Xia Pingzhou stopped looking at Yan Molin. "There's no need to worry about her... If she dies at the hands of a demon instead of me, then Unit 2 will explode on the spot."

He looked up at the seemingly indestructible shield. The enraged demon remained like a turtle curled up in its shell, taking the blows one-sidedly, while the power of the Queen Colossus was clearly insufficient to destroy the shield.

At this moment, the skull of the enraged demon, etched on the surface of the shield, was covered in sweat.

It knew that it was born a weapon, and that it could only play its true role when it depended on others.

In this isolated state, its performance is far inferior to that of a typical Cataclysmic Demon.

Originally, its user was "Pride," one of the Seven Deadly Sins, the elder brother of Wrath, whom it willingly served. However, Pride had already died at the hands of the former Lake Hunter, rendering the weapon "Wrath" completely useless.

At that moment, Xia Pingzhou suddenly picked up a chess piece on the ring road. It was the "Sewer Devil" he had acquired in Tokyo.

With a "crack," the chess piece shattered. In that instant, a little devil dressed in a protective suit and holding a giant water gun appeared.

Its water gun was filled with a yellowish-green liquid made up of feces and urine.

At this moment, the shield formed by the enraged demon was still being suppressed by the Queen's statue's overwhelming offensive, with no chance of escape whatsoever.

“Stop resisting, or you will be drowned in human excrement and urine,” Xia Pingzhou said expressionlessly. “Even if you can withstand most of the attacks, you can’t stop the smell of shit and urine, and your shield will turn into a ball of dung.”

He paused, then pinched his nose: "For humans, this is the ultimate punishment."

As he spoke, the sewer demon raised its giant water gun, first shooting a spray of thick yellow liquid at the maple tree next to it, then, with a sinister grin, aimed the gun at the enraged demon.

"Despicable humans!" The enraged demon paused for a moment, then roared furiously, "Sloth, what are you doing? Hurry up and deal with that guy!" As he spoke, the rage on the shield pattern turned its gaze, but suddenly paused.

Under the moonlit night, atop the trees, the body of the Sloth Demon had been severed in half at the waist by a dark red demonic blade.

She was split in two, leaving only a bloody lower half on the flying broom. Enma Rin stepped on the maple tree branches, her skirts billowing as she leaped straight up like a falcon.

He drew his sword, and with a swift stroke, sliced ​​through the upper half of the body that was flying through the air.

Immediately, the schoolgirl in the school uniform landed slowly on the trees, closed her eyes, and the demon sword, radiating resentment, slowly returned to the hole. The wails of the ghosts could no longer be heard.

The enraged demon was completely stunned.

“Look, your companion is dead. You are no match for the two of us either,” Xia Pingzhou said calmly.

"what are you up to?"

The enraged demon remained silent for a long time before asking, almost word by word.

“Sign a contract with me, and I’ll spare your life.” With that, Xia Pingzhou retrieved the colossus of the king and moved toward the shield formed by the enraged demon.

At the same time, the Möbius strip surrounding his body suddenly transformed into a key flowing with black and white light, floating in mid-air.

The front of the key is engraved with the shapes of the "Shadow Demon" and the "Copy Demon," a small shadow figure and a small paper figure, while the back of the key is printed with densely packed chess-like figures: Queen, King, Knight, Soldier...

This is the Skyward's "contractual state," a form that Skyward only manifests when it makes a contract with a demon.

Each Skyward Beast's contract form is different, but most are in the shape of a "container," some are wine glasses, some are water jugs, and some are even glass balls...

For example, Ke Qirui's Sky Drive Contract state is a metal sphere bound together by the chain of that one-way mirror.

As we can see, Xia Pingzhou's Sky Chaser "Chess" contract state is a "key". Xia Pingzhou has wondered more than once that this does not conform to the definition of a container, but he has not yet found a definite answer.

“If I’m not mistaken, the survivors of the Seven Deadly Sins were all subjected to some kind of manipulation by the former Lake Hunter, so that once the war begins, you will have to stand on the side of humanity. And for you, becoming my contracted demon should be better than being forced to become a sinner who betrays his race.”

As he spoke, Xia Pingzhou reached out and grasped the key, then bent down and handed it to the enraged demon.

“Choose one: sign a contract with me to preserve your dignity as a demon,” he said, “or be drowned in human excrement.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the sewer demon raised the water gun filled with a mixture of excrement and urine again and aimed it at the enraged demon.

The enraged demon remained silent for a long while.

"Okay... I'll go with you."

After saying that, its body gradually transformed from a shield shape back into the original silver cross, and then the skeletal humanoid figure also seeped out from inside the cross.

The colossal queen placed her right hand on Xia Pingzhou's shoulder while using her left hand to raise a long dagger and press it against the neck of the enraged demon.

Whether in its normal form or in its contractual form, if the Sky Chaser is destroyed, the exorcist will also die.

Therefore, the Queen's Colossus must ensure that the enraged demon does not turn around and destroy Xia Pingzhou's contracted Sky Chaser.

If the other party has such a thought, the Queen will immediately annihilate Xia Pingzhou's body along with the Heavenly Chariot. Then she will cut off the head of the enraged demon.

A moment later, the enraged demon raised its skeletal right arm and touched the key in Xia Pingzhou's hand.

Immediately afterwards, its body merged with the key, transforming into a pattern engraved on the front of the key, adjacent to the Shadow Demon and the Copy Demon.

The shadow demon covered its mouth with its hand and let out a "hehehe" laugh, as if welcoming the arrival of the new guest.

The copy demon trembled, hugged its knees, and silently sat a little further away, turning its face away.

The black and white light, carrying the key, returned to Xia Pingzhou's hand.

Immediately afterwards, a series of notification panels popped up in his eye sockets.

[Hint: The second unit, SkyDrive "Chess," has signed a contract with the rare demon "Raging Demon."]

[The Raging Demon's ability is as follows: For 30 seconds, the Raging Demon will transform into either a "shield" or a "sword," which can be used by the player or by your chosen piece.]

[Note 1: When encountering an attack exceeding the shield's withstand limit, the Enraged Demon's "shield" form can sacrifice itself to help the user block the attack.]

[Note 2: The "sword" form of the raging demon can enhance the user's power.]

[Shadow Demon's maximum duration: 5 seconds]

[Maximum duration of the cloned demon: 10 seconds]

[Maximum duration of the Raging Demon: 30 seconds]

"After the Sky Chaser was upgraded to the third tier, did the lifespan of the first two contracted demons also increase?" Xia Pingzhou wondered. He remembered that the Shadow Demon could only exist for 3 seconds, while the Copy Demon could only exist for 8 seconds. This value had increased significantly.

On the battlefield, even a single second is incredibly precious. Don't underestimate those few seconds; they represent a huge improvement.

Xia Pingzhou lowered his eyes and looked at the last prompt panel in his field of vision.

[Currently, the Skyward Exorcist has 0 empty slots remaining (the Exorcist's rank has been raised to Tier 3, and a total of three demons have been contracted, reaching the contract limit)]

"All done?" Enma Rin sheathed her sword and walked over slowly.

"It's all done." Xia Pingzhou said, raising his hand to show her the key in his right hand.

The key now features a skeleton bound to a silver cross, with a faint black and white halo surrounding it.

“Then let’s go… The commander said not to alert the enemy.” Enma Rin glanced at the key, then looked away and turned to the sewer demon, her eyes turning cold. “If you take out a demon like that to play with again, I’ll chop you up.”

Xia Pingzhou said calmly, "I've kept quite a few sewer demons for interrogation purposes. If they disobey, I'll have them drown those people."

Enma Rin suddenly drew his sword, turned to the side, and pressed the demon sword against Xia Pingzhou's neck.

"Put it away," she said firmly.

"It can't be taken back. The Demon Chess piece disappears after being used once, and it will be gone on its own after a while," Xia Pingzhou explained.

"Then get out of here quickly." Enma Rin frowned.

The Queen Colossus walked over, silently distancing itself from the sewer demon, bypassing the water gun filled with excrement and urine, and then bowed down in front of Xia Pingzhou.

Xia Pingzhou sat on its shoulder, and the Queen slowly straightened up, leaped up, and disappeared into the forest.

The next day, in a rather luxurious mansion in Haifan City.

Su Zimai and Ke Qirui were walking along the corridor, which was filled with the faint aroma of classical tea, toward the office where the four members of Lake Hunter were located.

"Speaking of which... since my maternal grandfather is your adoptive father, should I call you Auntie or Commander?" Su Zimai hesitated for a moment before asking in a low voice.

"The guild leader, I feel like something's off about him," Ke Qirui said, raising an eyebrow.

"Yeah, I think so too."

Su Zimai nodded and breathed a sigh of relief. She really couldn't imagine herself calling Ke Qirui "Auntie" every day.

"Speaking of which, could you please keep your sister-obsessed older brother and your daughter-obsessed father away from us?" Ke Qirui sighed and chuckled softly.

She turned her head and saw Gu Qiye and Gu Zhuo'an following behind Su Zimai with their arms around each other's shoulders.

"Well, there's nothing we can do about it. They insisted on following us," Su Zimai said irritably, turning her head to glare at the two of them.

"Then I'll take care of communicating with the four from Lake Hunting. You all, my dear family, can wait outside for now," Ke Qirui said, stopping in front of the office door. The door was made of mahogany and looked very luxurious.

Su Zimai nodded. "I don't really want to talk to that Zhou Jiuya. He's so fierce and has too much of an image to maintain."

"Okay, okay, I'll pass that message on to him for you," Ke Qirui teased.

Su Zimai raised her middle finger at her, and Gu Qiye silently walked over, reached out and pressed his sister's middle finger back down. Su Zimai turned her head and glared at him angrily.

“That’s impolite, uh… Miss Ke is our aunt after all,” Gu Qiye said with a smile.

"Alright, alright, your aunt is gone."

After speaking, Ke Qirui smiled and waved her hand at them before pushing open the door and entering the office.

A moment later, in the office.

Zhou Jiuya sat on the sofa, raised his fist to his cheek, and took a sip of tea from his teacup with his other hand.

Zhuge Hui sat in the other corner of the sofa, leaning to one side and waving a folding fan, his long hair cascading down his back like a waterfall.

Lin Xingshi sat in his office chair, reviewing a document submitted by the Exorcist Association.

Zhong Wujiu stood silently by the window, his deep eyes gazing out through the demon mask he wore.

"The White Raven Brigade?"

Zhou Jiuya asked. He looked up at Ke Qirui, who was smoking a pipe.

“Yes… Xiaomai said she saw the tour group on the street yesterday evening. But it’s not certain if she was mistaken.” Ke Qirui crossed her arms and leaned against the edge of her desk.

"The White Raven Brigade, who are they again?" Lin Xingshi looked up and asked curiously.

"A bunch of clowns," Zhou Jiuya said impatiently.

“Tell me about it, who exactly is it?” Lin Xingshi said.

"A bandit organization that specializes in targeting valuable items and operates all over the world," Zhuge Hui explained, waving his folding fan.

"And then, Crow, how did you get involved with this troupe?" Lin Xingshi asked again.

Zhou Jiuya sighed. "Didn't I go to Tokyo last month to attend an auction?" He paused. "I killed two of their members there, and they hold a grudge against me."

“There’s an old Chinese saying, ‘cut the weeds and pull out the roots,’ but you don’t understand that, Brother Crow,” Zhuge Hui said. “In my opinion, those people from the White Crow Brigade probably want to get involved while we’re fighting the Nian Beast.”

Zhou Jiuya snorted coldly, "Even so, with that group's strength, they can't cause any trouble. There's no need to care. Let's just continue to focus on dealing with the Nian Beast."

“No, no, no,” Zhuge Hui said slowly, “I don’t think so, and don’t you think there are suitable people here who can keep an eye on them?”

"Who?" Zhong Wujiu asked. "Tell me."

"The person I'm talking about is right outside the door," Zhuge Hui said, tapping his folding fan.

(End of this chapter)